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Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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b.well Connected Health Raises $16M for Personalized Health Platform
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- b.well raises $16 million in Series A funding led by UnityPoint Health Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to over $27 million.
- b.well provides a configurable digital platform to healthcare stakeholders to solve for interoperability and consolidation of point solutions through the lens of a consumer.
b.well Connected
Health, a Baltimore, MD-based platform designed to provide consumers a new
front end to healthcare, announced it has raised $16
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Health Gorilla Launches EMR-Integrated Electronic Ordering for COVID-19 Testing for LabCorp and Quest
What You Need to Know:
- Health Gorilla announces the launch of electronic ordering for COVID-19 testing for LabCorp and Quest that will allow thousands of providers, who currently rely on Health Gorilla to place lab orders, to seamlessly order COVID-19 tests for their patients.
- Providers and developers can begin placing orders through API and web-based interface, expanding access to COVID-19 testing within their existing product/EMR workflow.
Health
Gorilla, a Sunnyvale,
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Patient Data Liberation: HHS Releases Final Interoperability & Patient Access Rules
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- HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.
- The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
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- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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Op-Ed: Health Care Is Too Important To Stay The Same
Virtually every business around the globe is contending with how to improve the consumer experience in an era of digitization. We live in a world where you can calculate the fastest route to your destination, order dinner to be delivered, have groceries loaded into your fridge, and livestream content from around the world – all from the palm of your hand. So why have we not seen the same strides in health care?
In part, because of the inability of patients to access and control their own
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Rimidi Launches COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure
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- To limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Rimidi has developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening application for health systems to identify at-risk patients and direct them to appropriate locations.
- The EHR-integrated app is one of the first designed specifically to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, enabling health systems to mitigate the spread and optimize treatment.
Rimidi, a cloud-based
software platform, today announced
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Innovaccer Launches InAPI to Build Apps on FHIR APIs to Promote Interoperability
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- Innovaccer launches InAPI to build apps on FHIR APIs access for in-house development teams and third-party developers to enable seamless data.
- The platform enables easy development of healthcare apps and promotes healthcare data interoperability among systems to enable care as one.
Innovaccer,
a Silicon Valley-based healthcare
technology company, announced that it will be launching InAPI, its new
technology platform for healthcare developers that
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare Managed Connections to Improve Data Exchange
What You Need to Know:
- InterSystems launches InterSystems HealthShare® Managed Connections, a service that enables healthcare organizations to take advantage of a network of connections to a vast number of patient records via a central hub and exchange data easily.
- As a CommonWell ConnectorTM product, HealthShare Managed Connections empowers users with the ability to access the CommonWell Health Alliance network—representing more than 15,000 provider sites and 76
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MedBridge Partners with Redox to Expand Its Network of EMR Integrations
- MedBridge partners with healthcare integration platform Redox that will allow MedBridge users to quickly create and assign Home Exercise Programs, and more easily document within their EMR, without interrupting their workflow.
- MedBridge EMR integrated clients have already achieved savings of over $4,500 per clinician per year, by reducing five minutes of documentation time per patient.
MedBridge, the industry-leading continuing education and patient engagement solution that enables
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